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Erratically. they thought that he was using drugs and just kind of going downhill fast. we also interviewed another witness. jeff cohen was a friend of sid's. we learned from jeff that everybody had been up the night before into the early morning hours of august 1st. he told us that what was supposed to happen that evening or early morning was thayne was supposed to return some money to sid and in addition to paying the rent, was also going to give sid some additional money and some cocaine. jeff told us that his friend sid had been selling small amounts of cocaine in the previous months, and ...

Suspected that thayne smika was stealing cocaine from sid. it's our belief that thayne smika that night didn't have the cocaine or the money to give back to sidney wells. >> i'm the father of a college student, and i think it would be very naive to not think that your college-aged son might be trying recreational drugs. he might sell recreational drugs here or there. it's not a reason for someone to kill sid wells. it's not a reason for police not to investigate this case. sid wells was murdered in cold blood. that's what this case is about. >> at this stage of the investigation, thayne smika ...

Sid was -- had a girlfriend at the time named shauna redford. after a couple, two, three dates, he called me and said you won't believe this, i just found out i'm dating robert redford's daughter. >> sid and shauna had been dating for almost three years. and they were just a fun couple to be around, very much in love. >> we had a condo in boulder, colorado called the spanish towers. it was great, because sid was going to school there so he could live there all through his college days. >> sam moved in the summer of 1983. >> he needed a roommate so i filled in for the summer. got to hang out an...

Were met by sam wells at the elevator. sam took them into the apartment and on the living room floor of the apartment, they found sidney wells dead of an apparent gunshot wound to the head. >> shauna redford just had seen sid a couple hours before. he was alive and well, and then to come back and find out that he had been killed, you have absolutely horrific news. >> at 4:00, my boss called me to the front of the store and said that there was someone that needed to see me. it was a police officer from boulder. >> you're not prepared for anything to happen to your child. you're supposed to nurt...

Boxes upon boxes upon boxes of the investigative file into the murder of sid wells. in december of 2010, 27 years after sid wells was murdered, the d.a. signed off on an arrest warrant accusing thayne smika of murder in the first degree. >> after getting the warrant, we put together a coordinated search which included sending detectives to every place where there was members of the smika family or close friends of the smika family. unfortunately, the family without exception told us they did not know where thayne was and did not know how to locate him. >> i think mistakes were made. i think th...